Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Being married, I don't know how to describe it. It's very comfortable when you find the right person. It all comes together beautifully.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

I've got a great wife, a great life.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.

It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.